Senator Lindsey Graham (R-SC) was on the Newsmax This Week on Capitol Hill program with host Tony Perkins. They were discussing the agreement with the Iranian regime President Trump announced late in the week previously—the agreement the president declared to be a “great deal.”
The senator is one of this president’s most ardent supporters, particularly in foreign policy, and even more specifically in terms of Trump’s declaration that Iran will never get a nuclear weapon. Trump has said emphatically that Iran—neither through developing one through nuclear material enrichment nor through receiving such a weapon by being given it by or purchased from a source such as Russia, North Korea, or some other such entity—will never have a nuclear weapon in its military arsenal.
I, myself, have held out hope that there are numerous unknown elements in this “deal” that will indeed accomplish great things for America, Israel, and the world. So, I was surprised that Lindsey Graham, who is supposedly deeply in the president’s inner circle of knowledge about the “deal,” was so on the cusp of being highly critical of this arrangement the president has apparently made with the terrorist regime.
Graham and Mr. Trump are close personal friends; they often play golf together and are supposedly on the same page in most all things regarding America’s military involvements around the globe.
Senator Graham said something to the effect that he loved President Trump as a close friend, but that America’s security and that of Israel takes priority over all else. And there are things in this agreement, he intimated, that he isn’t certain about. He will have to learn the final agreement’s details.
I’ve always somewhat respected Senator Graham because of his pro-American, conservative stance. But I’m also a bit wary because he is a close associate of those in government who are involved in the military-industrial complex. These are too quick, I believe, to get the US involved in foreign conflicts. Many accuse this agglomerate of being in it largely for the US tax dollars that fund their ambitions.
All of that said, I believe it’s time to assess, in terms that matter, what these intrigues might mean in thinking on Bible prophecy.
A long-time Christian friend from India recently expressed in an email to me his, and I presume many of his fellow countrymen’s, fears about what this agreement with the Iranian regime might entail.
Whether it is my friend’s words or some he gathered in his news sources, here is what he sent.
We all know what Trump did namely deserting Israel. People are talking of reasons unknown to us. Some say it is fulfillment of prophecy in the last days.
U.S.-Iran agreement to extend the ceasefire and reopen the Strait of Hormuz. That is not victory. Not if winning is still the main metric of victory. That is a wounded serpent being allowed to crawl back into the rocks to reload, rebuild, rearm, and reactivate. That is why this proposed deal is so dangerous. A ceasefire with a defeated enemy is one thing. A ceasefire with an undefeated terror regime is something else entirely. It is not peace, it is a pause button, just as Obama’s 2015 Nuclear Deal with Iran only allowed them to get closer to a nuclear weapon. Trump’s Iran peace deal is not resolution, it is reload time. It is not the end of the war; it is the intermission before the next act. There’s a reason why Iran is mentioned in the Bible and the United States is not. Trump is preparing to send billions of dollars to Iran if this ‘peace deal’ goes through, and that is bad, bad news on any level, and on every level. Today we bring you everything you need to know about what will possibly the worst deal America has ever struck with a foreign adversary…
My concerned friend from India expresses fears from his part of the world. It is a sort of fear that one can sense growing.
Senator Graham suggested there must be clarification to assuage such fear—or, I sense he was saying, the deal must be scrapped and other avenues pursued. (Graham reportedly has since softened his opinion of this fourteen-point plan in making a deal with the Iranian regime. He now, the report says, has endorsed fully that document.) Talk-show host Mark Levin (“on the other hand”), who is Jewish and a Trump supporter for the most part, also sees the current situation with negotiations with Iran’s untrustworthy regime as problematic.
As for this writer, I know that our God has placed Donald J. Trump in this, the most powerful geopolitical position on earth. And I do believe this president is a negotiator who’s unparalleled in the history of presidential diplomatic undertakings. However, it comes to the forefront of thinking in the spiritual and prophetic sense—this is, if looking at it as a human president dealing from his own thinking and stratagem, a very dangerous negotiation. In other words, if God in Heaven isn’t at the center of the negotiations in this case, Mr. Trump and the “great deal” he has, he believes, made is destined to fail.
This, in that case, is President Donald John Trump vs. the prince of Persia (Daniel 12). It is “the art of the deal” vs. “the black art of deception.”
The supernatural dealer in deception has been at it a long, long time, Mr. President. Be sure you are on God’s side, not merely negotiating from your own experience as a dealmaker.
One other element that has prophetic import is that this is being praised as the greatest “peace deal” of all time. If Middle East peace can be achieved, it will be like no other negotiation in history, it is being touted.
To me and to other prophecy watchers from the pre-Trib perspective, this boast harkens to the apostle Paul’s warning in God’s Word: “When they cry peace and safety, sudden destruction comes” (1 Thessalonians 5:3).
Regardless, God is always in complete control, and this “deal” hasn’t and won’t take Him by surprise. We as believers can take great comfort from that reality because it all means Christ’s call to us might be the next voice we hear.
Paul tells us of this comfort in his revealing of the mystery of the Rapture of the Church:
But I would not have you to be ignorant, brethren, concerning them which are asleep, that ye sorrow not, even as others which have no hope. For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so them also which sleep in Jesus will God bring with him. For this we say unto you by the word of the Lord, that we which are alive and remain unto the coming of the Lord shall not prevent them which are asleep. For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God: and the dead in Christ shall rise first: Then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall we ever be with the Lord. Wherefore comfort one another with these words. (1 Thessalonians 4:13–18)
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